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Waiting for a judgment that might never come?
Perhaps, death itself would be a release.
In the next life, it would be enough to simply be a woman…
****
Within a street alley in Tanhua City.
On the still-unmelted snow, plum-red bloodstains bled, still warm to the touch.
Several female corpses lay sprawled at the base of the wall, their necks bearing gaping wounds where large chunks of flesh had been torn away.
Steam still rose from the raw, exposed flesh of their throats…
Lina, with one hand, clutched a young woman’s throat, and as her fangs pierced the skin, a sour, rusty tang exploded in her mouth.
“Truly unpalatable,”
Lina frowned, her tongue swirling the blood, which carried a distinct ‘sweaty tang’.
The fatigue and toil ingrained in mortal blood, akin to cheap wine mixed with grit, bore no comparison whatsoever to the pure, sweet mana found in the blood of the extraordinary.
With a brittle snap of bone,
she casually tossed the corpse onto the snowdrift, her thumb wiping her lips with a hint of revulsion.
Lina had already departed Silvia’s residence that morning.
She was hungry, needing to hunt for sustenance.
After all, the streets were teeming with mortal women; killing a few for their blood was hardly an issue.
Lina, a member of the Blood Clan, was inherently bloodthirsty, yet remarkably rational.
The cold wind stirred up fragmented snow at the alley’s mouth as Lina continued to prowl along the wall’s base.
How should one put it?
The blood of these mortals, if only the first taste, was still palatable…
****
By the time the thirteenth corpse slumped to the ground,
by chance,
Lina overheard the conversation of several women from an upstairs window in the alley, causing her to pause.
“Mom, why has the video I uploaded been restricted and taken down again?”
A childish complaint mingled with the faint sound of a television.
Following this, the soft voice of an adult woman replied:
“The Lily Garden official side… they must be controlling content related to Zhennu Yibai…”
“What the heck? They’re not even letting us expose the fact that Zhennu Yibai is a man, are they? Heh, related topics and tags for ‘her’ are also inaccessible, 404 errors everywhere.”
“Hmph~ He nearly strangled someone back then, and he even used magic to restrain me…”
****
Upon hearing this,
Lina furrowed her brow, wondering if she had misheard.
‘A man?’
‘Silvia is a man?!’
“Huh?”
Lina had never imagined that her ‘master,’ who had taken her in, was actually one who had disguised his gender, a revelation that sent a subtle tremor through her heart.
Yet, her reaction wasn’t particularly strong.
As a Blood Clan member from the Western World, she was hardly unacquainted with men; at most, she was merely surprised by Silvia’s gender.
However,
her goodwill towards him diminished considerably. After all, Lina was a lesbian.
Nevertheless, Lina paused to consider.
Given that Silvia had been missing for several days, and all related information about him was being suppressed online by ‘invisible hands’,
and recalling Silvia’s past remarks when he had explained matters concerning the Iris Feather Kingdom—
“Within the Iris Feather Kingdom, men are forbidden… Upon discovery, the penalty ranges from imprisonment to execution…”
Therefore,
Lina surmised that Silvia might very well have been imprisoned.
‘Has he been jailed…’
She murmured, kicking aside the corpse at her feet, her boot-sole crushing frozen bloodstains, her fangs glinting faintly between her lips.
‘Perhaps I should go ‘visit’ him in prison?’
‘It wouldn’t hurt to rescue him while I’m at it, considering his hospitality for a day or two…’
****
Meanwhile,
atop a commercial building.
Ling Cheyin sat on the edge of the rooftop, a laptop cradled in her arms, her legs dangling freely.
On the screen, the entire sequence of Silvia’s descent from the snow cocoon was playing:
the ‘snow cocoon’ falling, stirring up snow waves, the man in the snow pit… his veiny hand bulging as he choked someone, freezing everyone with magic, and then widely destroying cell phones…
Ling Cheyin periodically marked keyframes on the footage—
ensuring the marked frames precisely hit the flashpoints for public opinion.
This was surveillance footage from the East Gate of Acacia Plaza!
Apparently, the little demoness had hacked into their security system and stolen this portion of the recording.
She had even deleted the day’s surveillance playback from the control room’s backend.
Not only that,
several cell phones lay beside Ling Cheyin.
These phones were the ‘evidence’ she had casually seized while helping her sister apprehend those fleeing female informants.
Silvia had only destroyed the phones held in people’s hands.
Some passersby, however, had put their phones away beforehand, tucking them into bags or pockets, which provided an opportunity for Ling Cheyin later on.
These contained first-person perspectives from bystanders.
Thus, combined with the surveillance footage, she had dual perspectives.
“For treating me like a plaything back then… Hmph~ I’ll make sure you’re ruined now!”
“Just wait until your reputation is in tatters…”
The commercial building where Ling Cheyin now sat happened to be Tanhua City’s broadcast television tower.
She intended to hack into Tanhua City’s television tower network—and in ten minutes, broadcast ‘the truth’ about Zhennu Yibai!
“Soon, all of Tanhua City will see you… Zhen ‘Nu’ Yibai’s true face, hehehe…”
The little demoness tilted her head back, gazing at the sky, as the television tower’s signal emitters behind her pulsed with red light.